Crochet Blankets of Love.

Rasmus naughtily curled up in Evies blanket.
Right so I've been busy, but busy buzzy with nothing... just life.   

Evie's beautiful pink alpaca and a mixed blend 1st bed, blanket finally completed.
This has been a mare, as I just could get it right , hook knit yarn but size 8 hook the perfect tension and its huge, beautifully girlie pink stitches all in a row.

Pink alpaca.

Bean

 (above the V of hood, I added traingles to make square)

 
With my son home from uni and for those who follow you may have remembered my blanket for uni project, crocheted along the journey of dropping my son to be alone in the big wide world of university.

Well he's back for the summer and complained that its just not big enough.
I had recycled a shawl in his blanket/patch work lots of parts crochet
chained together, so I needed to level this part out it was to be almost hooded.

He decided he wanted regular, Just like home.

One of my big loves for crochet is that you can just keep adding......
Grow the project with the baby (so to speak) 19!!!

So its considerably grown.  Here's it finished for phase two.

Big bench sized.

Memory in the stitches
 
Funny thing was it made a sad, yet happy at the same time, reminding me of the early days of uni.  Classic empty nest.  Even the most non maternal missed her son.

Cup Cakes

Cup cakes, no mention for a while as the visit a village a week has halted.
 
But I did recently make it to London(late birthday) and on the recommendation of a friend got to sample a Red velvet Hummingbird cup cake.......

Pretty dam good.  Velvety and pinky red, so a winner all-round.

http://hummingbirdbakery.com/

Colour inspiration of fortnum and Mason.

http://www.fortnumandmason.com/

I seem to have a thing about blue and green!

Sirdar Designers & Cup Cakes.

Sirdar Designers and Cup Cakes........

Coils, coils ,coils it's currently a huge production line.

(Work force myself)

They are needed to hang from trees, I figured the acrylic coils will weather well and at the same time spin in the wind. That's my plan (watch this space)

A night away so a Train trip.

Reading to Yorkshire (Barnsley) to be exact.  My good friend had moved away and begun her dream job and I was honoured to be her plus one for a late Xmas do with none other than the complete Sirdar work force:-)


Oh yes she is officially Sirdar knit wears newest designer!

(hush incase thats a sercet)

 

http://www.sirdar.co.uk/

Oj oj oj.

The quirky little place fits the quirky little person, just heaven.

Always one for enjoying methods of transport that mean I can make Crochet in mass.  Completed , my scarf and boulder cover number four.

My library project is rocking.....

I think I might not have mentioned this yet but come February my art will be all over the  Woodley library.
 
Blog entry Library project 
http://theknittingforartexhibition.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-decorate-woodley-library.html
The centre court yard, secret garden will be a shining exhibition of crochet graffiti, incorporating my ducks.  Not foreign waters, but water all the same.

 My tumble dryer broke at xmas, sadly unrepairable.
( I know not Very PC, but its a luxury I allow)
And we got a new one, but no time to fit it.  So it's become a shelf to stack yet more knitting goods.  (project Library)

Photo from phone of part of a boulder cover, that's train crochet.

Cup cakes galore at the Elsecar Heritage Centre

Shop stop Ania's Cup Cakes, my choice lemon.  texture of sponge fab, icing a lot but that's the plus of a cup cake.  My disappointment was that the only thing about the cake that was actaully flavoured lemon was the little sweet on top.

I would recommend some jif lemon( a little goes along way)  to the icing and the sponge but the presentation and content was great, just as it should be..... 

Just add more lemon;-)